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The Rapture is an eschatological position held by some Christians, particularly those of American evangelicalism, consisting of an end-time event when all dead Christian believers will be resurrected and, joined with Christians who are still alive, together will rise "in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air."
88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988. Predicted that the Rapture would occur in 1988. Whisenant, Edgar C. (1989). The Final Shout: Rapture Report 1989. Predicted that the Rapture would occur in 1989. Whisenant, Edgar C. (1993). 23 Reasons Why a Pre-Tribulation Rapture Looks Like it will Occur on Rosh-Hashanah 1993.
Fundamentalist preacher who predicted in 1999 that the Second Coming would probably be within 10 years. [37] 2000 Frank Cherry: Founder of the Black Hebrew Israelite religion, who predicted the end would occur in A.D. 2000. [38] Ed Dobson: This pastor predicted the end would occur in his book The End: Why Jesus Could Return by A.D. 2000. [39 ...
Adventism has its roots in the teachings of the Baptist preacher William Miller. He first predicted that the Second Advent of Christ would occur before March 21, 1844. [1] When that date passed he revised his prediction to April 18, 1844. [2] After that date also passed, another Millerite, Samuel S. Snow, derived the date of October 22, 1844. [3]
The online index highlights the 45 signs of the rapture listed in the bible, such as "earth quakes" or "plagues," and scores them according to activity in the world. The numbers are then added ...
There have been attempts to identify the origin of Darby's concept of the rapture – the belief that a core of Christian believers who have died will be raised from the dead, and believers who are still alive and remain shall be "caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air" (1 Thess 4:17) in conjunction with the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
Pre-tribulation rapture theology originated in the eighteenth century, with the Puritan preachers Increase Mather and Cotton Mather, and was popularized extensively in the 1830s by John Nelson Darby [102] [103] and the Plymouth Brethren, [104] and further in the United States by the wide circulation of the Scofield Reference Bible in the early ...
Camping suggested that it would occur at 6 p.m. local time, with the rapture sweeping the globe time zone by time zone, [4] [5] while some of his supporters claimed that around 200 million people (approximately 3% of the world's population) would be 'raptured'. [6] Camping had previously claimed that the rapture would occur in September 1994.